--- title: Why aren't we uv yet? | daily.dev description: A data-driven look at uv adoption among Python developers in 2025-2026. Analysis of top GitHub repositories shows uv is used in ~30% of new Python repos... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-aren-t-we-uv-yet--tzrzhdn5g twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why aren't we uv yet? | daily.dev og:description: A data-driven look at uv adoption among Python developers in 2025-2026. Analysis of top GitHub repositories shows uv is used in ~30% of new Python repos... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-aren-t-we-uv-yet--tzrzhdn5g og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/TZrzhdN5G.png og:image:alt: Why aren't we uv yet? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Why aren't we uv yet? **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 3 min read · 7 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary A data-driven look at uv adoption among Python developers in 2025-2026. Analysis of top GitHub repositories shows uv is used in ~30% of new Python repos created in 2026, reaching 44% of the popularity of requirements.txt. The gap is largely attributed to LLM coding agents defaulting to pip due to training data bias. Recommendations are provided for library authors, application authors, and script authors on how to promote uv adoption. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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